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Will the new direction of Windows eventually push unsatisfied hardcore users who are attached to the desktop paradigm toward OS X? Apple has traditionally poached less savvy users, but now their OS seems conservative even with Lion/Mountain Lion and the trend toward iOSification.

Will the new direction of Windows eventually push unsatisfied hardcore users who are attached to the desktop paradigm toward OS X?

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Have any Windows users here thought about moving to OS X?

We considered it back when Vista was released. Unfortunately, all the Apple laptops at the time were way more expensive than non-Apple laptops. My wife really liked the original iBooks (the brightly coloured ones), but we couldn't affor $1000+ CDN for one.

We managed to hold off on upgrading/replacing her aging (and free) P4-based laptop until almost a year after Win7 came out, and upgraded to a $400 CDN AMD Vision-based laptop.

If there had been a MacOS X-based laptop available for under $500, we'd have jumped ship in a heartbeat!

Will the new direction of Windows eventually push unsatisfied hardcore users who are attached to the desktop paradigm toward OS X? Apple has traditionally poached less savvy users, but now their OS seems conservative even with Lion/Mountain Lion and the trend toward iOSification.

Have any Windows users here thought about moving to OS X?

I can't say I have considered that. The times I've used OSX I didn't like it and I don't see that changing. Sure, I could likely get around and do most of the stuff I do already, but I see no reason to. Also, I'm a gamer and most of my games do not work under OSX, so that's already enough of a reason not to go there in and of itself.

I thought about it, but with my investment in Windows software and lock-in into the business ecosystem around certain Windows software (though the latter is becoming increasingly weaker) it isn't likely to happen anytime soon.